Saturday, 5 March 2016

Paint Table Saturday - Navy, Artillery and Risk Takers

After a longish absence I told myself to come back to blogging more regularly. last year one of the embosomed habits of mine was the regular contribution to the 'Paint Table Saturday' group. So what could be better than coming back to that again.

Currently there are a couple of different project on my workbench:

The two chaps in the foreground are captains from Brigade Games wonderful range of Napoleonic British seamen. For now they'll top my collection off. There are a couple of seamen and gun crew to be painted but since they aren't bought yet I'll leave it with fourteen figures for now.

Behind them you see my piece for the 'Risk Taker' bonus round of Curt's painting challenge. I don't want to give too many hints but most of you should recognise that smuggler anyway. Actually he's finished already but he needs some varnish now.

Besides those I (finally) decided to paint my AWI British 6pdr gun and crew. I'm not sure whether I'll be able to finish them in time for the challenge but however it's time to get those chaps ready for action since I painted the limbered version nearly a year ago. Remember? Here.

Last but not least a couple of twins:

It's Warlord Games's interpretation of Oberst Kurt Steiner which some of you might know from the classic war film 'The Eagle has landed'. In this movie Sir Michael Caine plays the German Fallschirmjäger colonel who gets the order to kidnap or kill Winston Churchill during a secret mission behind enemy lines. He and his fellow soldiers jump off over Britain and try to get hold of the Prime Minister while he's spending some time in the county.

Since a couple of fellows and me want to play this story as a Bolt Action scenario I wanted to have the figure for my own and since Curt asked to have a 'Risk Taker' miniature as entrance fee (aka. 'Curtgeld') I decided to paint a second one right away.

Member of the Team for historical Simulations

The "THS - Team for historical simulations" is a small, multinational group of wargamers simulating historical battles as well as fictional conflicts. The team meets every other Friday night in Erkrath-Hochdahl near Duesseldorf.I joined the team in 2012 and since then I have the pleasure to share a lot of hobby time with these great fellows.

Three times in a row participant of Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

At the beginning of the year Curt from Analogue Hobbies organizes a painting challenge for miniature painters. This year I had the great pleasure to participate.
Look here for Curt's site and standings.

About me

Actually my name is Stefan and I'm from Germany. Besides being the husband of a lovely wife and the father of two charming daughters I've been doing wargaming for over 15 years. Smallscale modelling even longer...
On this blog I want to share my workbench with you and introduce some of my projects and results.
I hope you enjoy this view whicht might be at arm's length sometimes and personal some other times.